Colour Quote by A. S. Byatt

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with…

— Fred Kaplan

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

“Thomas Wolfe ate the world and vomited lava. Dickens dined at a different table every hour of his life. Molière, tasting society, turned to…

— Ray Bradbury

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure…

— Donna Leon

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

— David McCullough

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly…

— Jane Birkin

I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I think, a…

— David Essex

“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.”

— Claire Tomalin

“It may be all very well in Dickens, but when you read Dickens you're reading a long ballad from a vanished world, where everything…

— Per Petterson

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

— Eudora Welty

“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.”

— Michael Kroft